philip lelyveld The world of entertainment technology

Blippar – The ‘Shazam for faces’: World’s first facial recognition for smartphones is now more than 99% accurate and can even tell identical twins apart

• The app scans faces and brings up a profile with information about the person
• These profiles include images and links to a target's social media accounts
• The augmented reality technology can recognise over 400,000 public figures
• It can even tell apart identical twins such as Irish pop duo Jedward

See the full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5239767/The-Shazam-faces-99-67-accurate.html